2 Kings 4:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.

2 Kings 4:19 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 14:1-2
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. …
Jeremiah 4:19
My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

Topics

Disease Heat Shunammite Sunstroke

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 18-37)

We may well suppose that, after the birth of this son, the prophet was doubly welcome to the good Shunammite. He had thought himself indebted to her, but henceforth, as long as she lives, she will think herself in his debt, and that she can never do too much for him. We may also suppose that the child was very dear to the prophet, as the son of his prayers, and very dear to the parents, as the son…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 19)

19. My head, my head!--The cries of the boy, the part affected, and the season of the year, make it probable that he had been overtaken by a stroke of the sun. Pain, stupor, and inflammatory fever are the symptoms of the disease, which is often fatal.